Girlfriend Getaway (GGA) is one of the most popular forms of travel for females around the world in recent years. Women escape daily chores through girlfriends travel, where they gather, talk and share with close friends, shop luxuriously and enjoy leisure time together. Due to the huge dividends that this form of tourism can bring to the post-epidemic tourism destination market, destinations need to pay special attention to this emerging market. Judging from the existing literature, the marketing departments of some tourist destinations have launched certain products according to the characteristics of the girlfriend getaway (GGA) luxury tourism market. Most of them use GGA as a publicity gimmick with few breakthroughs in product content. This is because the destination has not fully explored the travel experience needs of GGA travel, and has not fundamentally studied how the luxury travel experience of GGA travel can bring happiness to women.
Based on the spillover theoretical framework and tourism well-being theory, this study explores the luxury tourism experience of women and girlfriends and its impact on tourism satisfaction and subjective well-being, and studies the differences in the impact paths of different female luxury tourist groups. This study extracted five dimensions (escapism, happiness, luxury leisure, personal enrichment, and sense of connection) of women's girlfriends' luxury travel experience from previous research, and used structural equation modeling (SEM) to test and estimate the causal relationship between dimensions and travel satisfaction and female subjective well-being. The specific content is as follows:
First of all, this study builds a theoretical model based on the analysis of previous literature; Secondly, the researcher used the two forms of paper and questionnaire star in the study case - Macau, a luxury tourist destination, and adopted a systematic sampling method based on the sampling frame to collect 169 valid questionnaires for pre-test. The questionnaire was modified to form the formal survey questionnaire of this study. Finally, the official survey used offline questionnaire distribution. The questionnaire distribution was conducted for GGAs who came to Macau for tourism and stayed overnight. Finally, the official survey used offline questionnaire distribution. The questionnaire distribution was conducted for the group of girlfriends who came to Macau for tourism and stayed overnight. A total of 445 valid questionnaires were collected, and the measurement model and structural model were analyzed using SPSS 23.0 and Smart PLS3.3.9 software
The results of this study support eight of the eleven hypotheses, and also verify the rationality of the structural model constructed based on the hypotheses. The systematic survey of 445 female tourists in Macau show that all dimensions except escapism and personal enrichment significantly affect satisfaction, and all dimensions except luxurious leisureliness significantly affect subjective well-being. GGA travel satisfaction partially mediates the relationship between happiness and subjective well-being; GGA travel satisfaction fully mediates the relationship between luxury leisure and subjective well-being; and GGA travel satisfaction partially mediates the relationship between sense of connection and subjective well-being. In addition, this study use PLS-MGA to compare the sensitivity of three different groups to the relationship between women's luxury travel experience, GGAs' travel satisfaction, and subjective well-being. There were one path differences between the single group and the married group; four path differences between the low- and high-income groups; and three path difference between the less-spending and more-spending groups. These results suggest that women across demographics are looking for different aspects of the girlfriends luxury travel experience, and that this type of travel can meet the diverse needs of all women traveling to their destinations.
This study makes a theoretical contribution to girlfriend travel research by identifying the experiences women seek in luxury travel. First, based on travel experience theory, it further improves the dimension of GGA luxury travel experience and enriches the research results of GGA travel experience. Second, it further improves the spillover theory in the field of tourism and studies tourism satisfaction and subjective well-being from the travel experience of GGA, which enriches the connotation of the theory female subjective well-being and opens up the academical understanding of female tourism.
This study has implications for tourism destination management and marketing by understanding the needs of different female groups for GGA luxury travel. On the one hand, destination management and marketers should formulate appropriate destination marketing strategies, such as providing targeted promotional videos with girlfriend travel characteristics on official websites, social media and apps. On the other hand, destination companies such as hotels, travel agencies, catering, and the medical beauty industry should provide GGAs with products suitable for them according to the characteristics of luxury travel for girlfriends. In addition, destinations should focus on packaging their own tourism products, adjust product plans, market and create distinctive tourism products according to market preferences to meet tourists' needs.
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